Just looking at my great danes (one's a rescue) and I'm thinking we could have a quite a large bbq, though they may be a bit sinewy.

Having eaten a lot of rat in rural Vietnam I can say it is rather tasty. Though I did learn that you want to eat country rat not city rat, to much human poo content in a city rat. If you do decide to attend I'd be asking the question.

Domestic rats have been pets for about 150 years - longer than hamsters! I know they're not commen in America, but here in Blighty they're very popular pets.

Rat rescues look after animals that have been hurt, often treated really awfully, becuase people think that rats are less-than-pets, 'nasty animals', and stupid pets. That's in spite of how clever they are! Rats are also the only animals apart from humans and chimps that laugh in humour and play, and have been shown in experiments to be altruistic. So no, cruelty domestic rats - not really a punchline, sorry.

Somebody needs to come rescue my lab rats, because after Frances' comment, I have no idea how I'm going to do my experiments. There's a reason I'm a vegetarian and also not a vet. Cruelty toward animals breaks my heart.

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